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  1. November 2003 Web Server Survey

    In the November 2003 survey we received responses from 44,946,965 sites.

    Apache has a significant percentage gain this month as register.com, a leading domain registrar with a domain parking system serving responses for over one million domains eliminated its Windows front end, and reverted to Linux and Apache which it ran previously. Barely weeks ago its largest rival, Network Solutions made a similar switch from Microsoft-IIS back to SunOne, nee Netscape-Enterprise, for its own domain parking system.

    During 2001 and the first half of 2002 several companies hosting very large numbers of hostnames including Webjump, Namezero, Homestead, register.com and Network Solutions migrated to Microsoft-IIS. Subsequently these businesses have either failed, significantly changed their business model, or reverted to their previous platform, and Microsoft-IIS share is now in line with its long term pre-summer 2001 level of around 20%.

    Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - November 2003

    Graph of market share for top servers across all domains, August 1995 - November 2003

    Top Developers
    Developer October 2003Percent November 2003Percent Change
    Apache 2823597264.61 3029806067.41 2.80
    Microsoft 1025222723.46 944918021.02 -2.44
    SunONE 15280903.50 15252023.39 -0.11
    Zeus 7351791.68 7436111.65 -0.03

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    Posted by Netcraft Admin on 3rd November, 2003 in Web Server Survey Share/Bookmark

  2. Strong Growth in Top US and European Hosting Providers

    This months Hosting Provider dataset shows US and German companies to be making the largest gains over the last month, with the top ten companies evenly spread between Europe and America.

    Top Hosting Providers By Growth in Hostnames, Sept 03 to October 03
    Hoster Parent Sep 03 Oct 03 Growth % Growth Primary
    Region
    1&1 Internet AG 3,293,408 3,443,442 150,034 4.6% Europe
    GoDaddy Inc 1,373,672 1,467,264 93,592 6.8% America
    IP Exchange GmbH 57,242 128,835 71,593 125.1% Europe
    EV1Servers.net 550,808 601,393 50,585 9.2% America
    Strato AG 1,867,652 1,910,975 43,323 2.3% Europe
    NTT/Verio 1,090,419 1,130,789 40,370 3.7% America
    Host Europe 492,388 526,971 34,583 7.0% Europe
    Yahoo! 486,868 515,306 28,438 5.8% America
    ThePlanet.com 71,975 96,157 24,182 33.6% America
    Fasthosts 352,224 373,281 21,057 6.0% Europe

    The massive 1&1 Internet AG continues to gain the largest number of hostnames (+151K), followed by GoDaddy (+93.5K), which launched a new shared hosting service in August, IP Exchange GmBH (+71.6K) and EV1Servers.Net (50.6K).

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    Posted by Mandy Davis on in Hosting Share/Bookmark

  3. Vulnerable versions of OpenSSL apparently still widely deployed on commerce sites

    The UK National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) developed a test suite for SSL/TLS implementations, designed to detect vulnerabilities caused by the implementation responding badly to deliberately malformed certificate syntax. These tests have been run against a number of Vendors' implementations, several of which are either vulnerable to some extent, or are still awaiting the manufacturer's feedback, and the results are sumarised on the NISCC web site.

    The tests were made available to the OpenSSL team, and three specific vulnerabilities were found. These could result in denial of service, or theoretically allow execution of arbitrary code, when OpenSSL is presented with a malformed client certificate. The fixes for these problems are available in the latest versions (0.9.6k and 0.9.7c).

    OpenSSL
    version    		 No. of
    sites    		 Applicable
    advisories    		 Effect
    0.9.6d and
    earlier    		 25539 30-Jul-2002 Practical to run arbitrary code remotely
    0.9.6e-h and
    0.9.7    		 14116 19-Feb-2003 Practical (LAN) attack to recover frequently repeated plaintext such as passwords
    0.9.6i and
    0.9.7a    		 5877 17-Mar-2003
    19-Mar-2003    		 Practical (LAN) attacks to obtain or use secret key
    0.9.6j and
    0.9.7b    		 4003 30-Sep-2003 Denial of Service, and theoretically possible run arbitrary code remotely
    0.9.6k and
    0.9.7c    		 1356   Clean at present
    Total all
    versions    		 50891    

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    Posted by Netcraft Admin on in Security Share/Bookmark